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For over 20 years, I have hiked all the trails above our town thinking I knew just about all there was to know about the trails until a recent hike. I was hiking along a trail just outside of town when I happened to look down and saw something I had missed all these...
When it’s time to do a makeover of any aspect of our lives, whether it is physical, relational, or spiritual, timing is everything. Makeovers have a window of possibility attached to them that requires a specific timing not always present when the desire for change is...
In the last few years, I've sensed a rise in cautionary words for the Church. A word of caution is not always warm and fuzzy, especially when it disrupts the status quo of our assumptions. When our lives seem stable and prospering, we don’t want to think of any kind...
You have caught the scent of something new - a fragrance of coming change. God is the one who has awakened this sensitivity in you. Like a person experiencing an exquisite perfume for the first time this unfamiliar fragrance has turned your head in a new...
Some of your life is out of alignment with the purpose of God. Like two gears out of synch with each other there has been a missing alignment between the gear of heaven and your life. Your forward motion has stalled. You need to stop trying to make this alignment work...
Recently, you have felt the weight of something pressing down upon your life. It has become like emotional gravity. This constant pressure is having a cumulative effect on your ability to see the goodness of God in this season. The effect of this gravity...
That challenging experience in the last season of your life has left you feeling exposed. You are experiencing an uncomfortable nakedness in the presence of those who know what took place. But you have a different reality than this feeling of exposure. You are not...
You look like a little child standing before this immense need. In your hand is an empty straw basket. To those who lack spiritual insight it appears that your childlike posture of faith cannot meet this need. Your basket is empty for a reason. You have relied...
You want to run, but you know you cannot outrun what is coming. This immense wave of circumstance that is building before you has caught you beyond the security of the shoreline in the shallow waters of knee-deep vulnerability. Your only survival...
Your departure into the next season of life will be like a hot air balloon ride. The last blast of heat from the burner has filled the canopy. The balloon is filled and ready floating just a few feet above the earth. Nothing else needs to take place except...
Your life resembles one of those party games where people hold a weighted object straight out in front of them seeing how long they can hold it up before their arm starts trembling from exhaustion. In this season of life you have been holding the weight of your...
Your life has been idling at this intersection for too long. This was only a temporary stop, not a place to park. As you pulled up to this season of life God intended you to stop and like driving a car you needed to move forward again, but you haven’t. The...
The armor is like an ornate gold breastplate with shoulder pads worn by a first century centurion. Inside the armor a child is playing. The contrast is striking – a little child rolling around and laughing inside a protective battle garment designed for someone...
In this last season you have felt like a person trying to haul water while carrying a leaking bucket. All your efforts seem to have drained out onto the pathway of your life. So many things are not working like you planned yet you continue to repeat...
You are about to walk between two opinions. The demand that has been placed upon you to come into agreement with either side of this issue is a work of division and compromise. As you walk farther down this path the opposing parties will assume you are...